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0. WITTENBERG.

GHILDS CARRIAGE. .No. 258,270. Patented May 23, 1882.

WHTNESSESZ [INVENTEQJW W %m4 /5%M/h2an fifwdp UNITED STATES CHARLES WITTENBERG,-OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO NOR PATENT OFFICE.

MAN S. BYRAM AND EDWARD Gr. COR-NELIUS, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

CHILDS CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,270, dated May 23, 1882.

Application filed September 22, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

the canopy over either end of the carriage or at any intermediate point desired.

In childrens carriages as heretofore constructed the standards supporting the'cauopy have been secured at their lower ends permanently to the body of the carriage at or near one end.

Myinvention consistsin mountingthe standards which support the canopy on parallel 2: horizontal rods secured at each end to the sides (No model.)

a to represent the rods, which may be of round, square, or other suitable section. The rods a are secured to the carriage-body by brackets bat each end. Short stub-standards c c embrace and slide freely upon the rods a a, being secured in any desired position along the rod by a set-screw, 8. To the upper portion of the stub-standard c is riveted the remainder of the standard supporting the can opy, which may be solid or of any of the numerous adjustable forms. By this construction I am able to place the canopy at either end of the carriage or at any intermediate point desired.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The parallel rods to a, secured to the body of a carriage substantially in the manner described and shown, and combined with supports for a canopy secured adjustably along said rods, in the manner and forthe purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the stub-standards c e, the rods to a, and a carriage-body, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES WITTENBERG.

Witnesses 02M 1. H001), SAML. T. SHELLEY. 

